I could name some of the chief. The truth is, he made few friends during his grandeur among the royal sufferers, but advanced the old rebels. He was, however, though no considerable lawyer, one who kept up the form and substance of things with more solemnity than some would have had." Again Evelyn adds, on the 9th of December, "To visit the late Lord Chancellor, I found him in his garden at his new-built palace, sitting in his gout wheel-chair, and seeing the gates setting up towards the north and the fields. He looked and spake very disconsolately. Next morning I heard he was gone."

The Chancellor died in exile, and shortly afterwards Clarendon House was sold by his successor to Christopher Monk, second Duke of Albemarle, for 25,000l. The Duke appears to have resided here for some time, but afterwards parted with it for about 35,000l., when it was immediately levelled to the ground, and the present Dover Street, Albemarle Street, Old Bond Street, and Grafton Street, were erected on the site of its beautiful gardens. Evelyn witnessed with great pain "the sad demolition of that costly and sumptuous palace of the late Lord Chancellor, where he had often been so cheerful with him, and sometimes so sad." And on the 19th of June 1683, he writes, "I returned to town with the Earl of Clarendon : when passing by the glorious palace his father built but a few years before, which they were now demolishing, being sold to certain undertakers, I

turned my head the contrary way till the coach was gone past it, lest I might minister occasion of speaking of it, which must needs have grieved him, that in so short a time their pomp was fallen." Close to Berkeley Street is an archway (leading to the "Three Kings" public-house and livery stables,) on each side of which is a Corinthian pillar, which, according to Mr. D'Israeli, are the last remains existing of Clarendon House.

Burlington House stands on the site of a house built by the celebrated poet Sir John Denham, in the reign of Charles the Second. The present mansion was erected by Richard Boyle, third Earl of Burlington, who was the architect of his own house, as he also was of the Duke of Devonshire's palladian villa at Chiswick, and, in conjunction with the Earl of Pembroke, of Marble Hill, near Twickenham,

Who plants like Bathurst, and who builds like Boyle? Horace Walpole says of Burlington House:"I had not only never seen it, but never heard of it, at least with any attention, when, soon after my return from Italy, I was invited to a ball at Burlington House. As I passed under the gate by night it could not strike me. At day-break, looking out of the window to see the sun rise, I was surprised with the vision of the colonnade that fronted me. It seemed one of those edifices in fairy tales, that are raised by genii in the night's time." Pope was a constant visitor at Burlington House, and has celebrated "Burlington's delicious meal" in some verses which we have already quoted. Gay, too, tells us

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that he always entered Burlington House with "cleaner shoes," and we find the great musician Handel a cherished guest. Gay says, in his "Trivia:" Burlington's fair palace still remains,

Beauty, within;-without, proportion reigns;

There Handel strikes the strings, the melting strain
Transports the soul, and thrills through every vein;
There oft I enter-but with cleaner shoes,

For Burlington's beloved by every muse.

In Dover Street, at the close of life, on the site of the "fair gardens" which he had formerly laid out for his illustrious friend Lord Clarendon, lived the amiable and high-minded philosopher, John Evelyn. Here, also, when the death of his royal mistress, Queen Anne, drove him from St. James's Palace, lived the witty and amiable Dr. Arbuthnot, the friend of Swift, Pope, and Gay, and beloved by every man of genius who lived in the Augustan age of England.*

Albemarle Street derives its name from Christopher, second Duke of Albemarle, who succeeded the Earls of Clarendon in the possession of Clarendon House. Till very recently the "Duke of Albemarle" public-house was still to be seen in Dover Street. Albemarle Street witnessed the last scenes of "Harley's closing life;" that celebrated statesman having breathed his last at his house in this street, on the 21st of May, 1724.

It was in Albemarle Street, at the house of Lord Grantham, that George the Second, when Prince of Wales, kept his court, after his memorable quarrel Biog. Brit., Supplement.

with his father in 1717. Sir Gustavus Hume, groom of the bedchamber to George the First, writes, on the 24th of December, to the Earl of Marchmont: "The Prince and Princess, after having been both very ill, are now perfectly recovered: they are still at my Lord Grantham's, in Albemarle Street, where they saw company last Sunday for the first time. I am told, his Highness's levee was very slender, not above three or four noblemen, and they such as have not appeared at St. James's for a long time. All such as are admitted to the King's court are under strict orders not to go at any time to the prince or princess's, more particularly all of us that have the honour to be immediately in his Majesty's service. This unhappy difference gives a sensible disturbance to all honest men, and as much pleasure to all those that are enemies to the family."

Hereafter Albemarle Street will be interesting to the lovers of past history, from its containing the residence of the late Mr. Murray,

Lintot and Tonson of his day,

at whose hospitable table have assembled every person of talent of the present century, and whose house is especially interesting from so many literary recollections. He informed me, I remember, that it was in walking up and down Albemarle Street that Lord Byron composed the greater part of the "Corsair."

On the site of the Albany stood the house and

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gardens of the celebrated minister Charles Spencer Earl of Sunderland, who died in 1722. The first and late Lord Melbourne afterwards built a house on the spot, which he subsequently exchanged with the Duke of York for his mansion in Whitehall, now the residence of Lady Dover. Having been deserted by his Royal Highness a set of chambers were erected on the gardens, to which purpose also the house was converted,-and they then received the name of the Albany Chambers, from the Duke's second title of Duke of Albany. In 1814 Lord Byron was residing at No. 2, in the Albany, and it was during his residence here that "Lara” was published, and apparently composed. In his journal of the 28th of March he writes: "This night I got into my new apartments, rented of Lord Althorpe, on the lease of seven years. Spacious, and room for my books and sabres. In the house, too, another advantage. The last few days, or whole week, have been very abstemious, regular in exercise, and yet very unwell." And, again he writes, on the 10th of the following month. "I do not know that I am happiest when alone; but this I am sure of, that I never am long in the society even of her I love without a yearning for the company of my lamp, and my utterly confused and tumbled-over library. I have not stirred out of these rooms four days past; but I have sparred for exercise (windows open) with Jackson an hour daily to attenuate and keep up the ethereal part of me."

Nearly opposite to the Albany is St. James's